I have a dell poweredge 2950 that has 2 Mellanox Connect X-2 10Gb NICS installed in it. They are both in 8x slots. The server has 2 raid0's using SSD's but for testing I'm using an 10gig ram disk. The ...

Currently I have a workstation running on Windows 8.1, and a Storage server running Freenas 9.3.
Now they are connected on a central gigabit router to communicate. The network is almost saturated when ...

I am looking into alternatives to commercial firewall appliances.
Most of the resources available online describe home network firewalls or sub-gigabit networks. Considering than 10GbE is becoming the ...

I have a Gigabyte MD60-SC0 motherboard which has a QSFP+ port. I need to connect this with another machine I have which has a Intel X520-SR2 NIC (with two SFP+ ports) plugged in. I also have QSFP+ to ...

I have an HP 5406zl switch running the latest firmware in the non-early release branch (K.15.14.0007, ROM K.15.30) and it is not accepting direct attach SFP+ cables in its SFP+ module. The module is a ...

I'm trying to configure stand-alone test network to examine a server that has two 10GbE ports PCIe NIC. But I couldn't get any ARP responses of those 10GbE ports. To execute my test, it's necessary to ...

we are trying to configure a descent size (in layman's perspective) storage at my lab. I am a skilled programmer, but my knowledge in hardware at non-consumer level is very limited at this point.
At ...

I identified that data transfer within my cluster will be bottlenecked by the network interconnect (I'm saturating the dual SAS connection to my storage with sequential workloads), and I'm undecided ...

I'm looking to run 10 GbE over lengths of 5-25m for a research lab and have been shopping for the appropriate optics. I'm guessing a mix of copper direct-attach cables and OM3, OM4, LC/LC multimode ...

I would know if exists visual differences between "8Gb FC SR HBA" and "10GbE-SR 2p PCIe Adapter" cards in order to identify them watching the cards installed in the server rear without access to the ...

We are constructing a new networking infrastructure to replace out 1GbE backbone and have decided upon using 4x Dell PowerConnect 8024F's as our "core" switches.
As per the diagram below we have 2x ...

We're using IBM Blade Center HS-22 servers with Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gbps NICs to a Nortel 10Gbps switch. With one of the chassis the NICs can establish a 10G rate with the command "ethtool eth2 ...

We are going to do the cabling in our new office building and we are thinking to lay down 10Gbit cables since we use HP switches that come with 10Gbit ethernet ports. We will also lay down few fiber ...

We are looking to implement 10Gig ethernet for our ESX hosts and SANs. There are a number of solutions we have been looking at and it has really boiled down to what will give us the best bandwidth.
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In the context of a network switch, what exactly is "serialisation delay"? (I've heard this term a few times.) I've also heard that 10Gb Ethernet (as opposed to 1Gb Ethernet) as a transport technology ...

I am attempting to set up a server with a total of four single-mode fiber ports - two need to be at least 1Gb and two must be 10Gb. I have found a variety of 10Gb single-mode fiber network adapters ...

I am putting a Dell server together, more specifically R720. I have to select the correct Host Bus Adapter. This HBA on R710 will connect to a storage device. I am confused between these two:
QLogic ...

I have a performance issue with my SAN. I have a full 10Gbps private network setup. I have the following setup
1 - Mac with Connected with via Fiber Transciever 10GbE
1 - Windows 7 PC with 10GbE
1 - ...

I have a server in a data center, which has an Ethernet NIC card with Fibre support. I have a 1Gbps connection and my ISP asked me to make sure the settings on my device are as follows:
Full Duplex, ...

We have got some old 62.5um single-mode fiber links in our building. Network people told me, that Cisco 10GBASE-LRM with Cisco mode conditioning patch cables works fine on those cables and provides a ...

I got a 10GBit Server with proxmox 2.1
installed. There's an OpenVZ container running with Ubuntu
10.04 64bit.
I can get 200-300MB/sec with wget from data-center internal servers (-O
/dev/null) which ...

I am searching for a Network Card Driver, the nic is "NetXen 10Gb (CX4) Ethernet Protocol Offload Adapter"
I am using this adapter on a Windows 2008R2 Box - Once I installed windows - it had already ...

We currently have Brocade 200E fiber switches, connecting 2 EMC CLARiiONs to 4 VMware ESXi hosts. We are looking into new storage options using iSCSI with our existing ethernet network, including the ...